Posted on 04/28/2010 10:26:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Arizona officially joined the South this month. In other words, it became for our Northeastern media elitists a state dominated by backward, slack-jawed racists. The Associated Press marked the passage of a tough new anti-immigration law with the leftist version of a Welcome Wagon: "The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol."
Disagreeing with the left -- and more importantly, handing them a political defeat -- brings a lot of ugliness these days from the forces of "tolerance." Character assassination is required. A citizen of Arizona cannot be concerned about higher rates of crime and strained government budgets without being Mexican-food-smeared as an adorer of Adolf Hitler. But what's truly outrageous if not surprising is that the same media that visibly quivered with anger that anyone would draw a Hitler moustache on their hero Barack Obama now present these Nazi smears as not an embarrassment to the left, but as a way of augmenting the left. The "furor was growing" over the tough new law, they dutifully report.
On the "CBS Evening News," Katie Couric calmly forwarded as credible the Nazi charge against those who support enforcing federal immigration laws. On April 23, CBS reporter Bill Whitaker suddenly liked the Catholics: "In Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the country's largest Catholic archdiocese, called the law mean-spirited and compared it to Nazi oppression." On April 26, CBS spotlighted a swastika sign with the words "Achtung! Papers Please," and Couric relayed the AP line that "some of those opponents vandalized the state capitol building, smearing refried beans in the shape of swastikas on the windows." Ho hum.
Don't these "journalists" see the contradiction? Are they really that blind, or that dumb?
A month ago, when the tea party movement brought their ardor to Capitol Hill against a government takeover of the health industry, "ugly" was the defining word. Here's David Muir on ABC's March 20 "World News": "Protesters against the plan gathered on the streets of the Capitol, where late today, we learned words shouted turned very ugly -- reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one protester actually spitting on a congressman." There were no arrests, and no actual proof of the "slurs" alleged. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver backed off the claim he was spit on. The N-word was never used, as so dishonestly claimed.
And still, the tea party is "very ugly."
When protesters are left-wing, how it changes. Look at the Arizona coverage. On the same network on April 24, ABC reporter Mike von Fremd was spinning wildly: "Riot police were called in to try and control demonstrators protesting outside the capital. Most were peaceful. A handful threw bottles at police and were arrested."
This spin line -- that rioting protesters were "mostly peaceful" -- was repeated by The New York Times and CNN (who called them "largely peaceful"). The Times made sure its photo choices radiated sympathy for the protesters. On Saturday, they stood enveloped in a huge American flag. On Sunday, they were holding a sober candlelight vigil. There were no photos of a cop getting hit in the head with a bottle. ABC and NBC noted the protests, but mentioned neither the violence, nor the "mostly peaceful" spin.
A leftist protester of the World Bank was also arrested in Washington on April 24 for felony assault on a policeman, one of eight arrests. No one heard about that violence. Media liberals may dismiss the notion of violence by insisting that policemen haven't been hospitalized. But leftist protests, in the architecture of their organizing principles, rely on making days miserable for police, forcing arrests for disturbing the peace; on forcibly blocking traffic, and then going limp and forcing officers carry them to jail. In the interest of drawing media attention, they often plan on violence against policemen and property. They must sneer at conservative protests as placid garden parties by comparison.
And the tea party protesters are the "ugly," "violent" ones.
A Washington Post article glorifying this last weekend's leftist jog in our nation's capital as a "run on the bank" to "destroy capitalism" offered a telling line. One protester described the expected behavior for their "convergence space" before protest activities, warning, "Don't be a jackass in the neighborhood. Save that for downtown." The sick joke in that line is that protesters can be as aggressive and offensive anywhere they want, and they can count on their media sympathizers to romanticize their struggle against whatever power structure that has failed to bow to their utopian wishes.
Go Arizona. I hope other states follow suit.
What every political fire direction center wants to hear over the radio...
I know the vast majority of the news readers are of Leftist persuasion, but I also know that most of those we see reading the news to us on the air did not prepare the news they read. There are the Leftist Editors behind the scenes, Thesaurus in hand carefully choosing the words to present the news as they want it presented by the faces we know, the Newsreaders, the Journoactors behind the desk and the microphones.
That tells me of an organization.
AZ was settled by Confederate Ex-Pats.
I do think people are getting wise to this.
“AZ was settled by Confederate Ex-Pats.”
150 years later that’s of little consequence, particularly considering the hundreds of thousands who’ve moved to AZ in the past 20 years or so. It has more to do with a common sense reaction to living in a sea of illegals that’s being continuously resupplied.
They should get the troops (police) ready to round up the entire crowd of illegals everytime they show up and demonstrate. At least that is my take on the subject. What a waste, we have thousands of perps on the same street, and few arrests. Load up the buses, and take them back to the border if they cannot prove they are legal......YESTERDAY!!!
I’ve seen several newsphotos of gangs of screaming protesters waving signs and fists in the air. It strikes me that hysterical “blancas” (white females) are the most common category which appears in them. Does anyone else notice this?
Arizona was settled by the Spanish.
Later the Mormons settled and established many towns in AZ.
True..the territory was included in the south during the civil war but never had any impact since it had very little population other than native Americans.
The Gold and Silver rushes brought many a prospector to AZ from all over the USA and not just confederates as you so point out. So in fact...AZ was a territory that was settled by many people and not just confederates as you so falsely point out.
AZ came about as the result of the Mexican American war where the Mexican Government gave up its northern territories per losing that war.
So what?
There's a joke about metrosexuals in there somewhere, but it's too nasty.
Ping!
They just hope that all 19 of their listeners are...
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